Erlang Programming

Foreword;
Preface;
Francesco: Why Erlang?;
Simon: Why Erlang?;
Who Should Read This Book?;
How to Read This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
1.1 Why Should I Use Erlang?;
1.2 The History of Erlang;
1.3 Erlang’s Characteristics;
1.4 Erlang and Multicore;
1.5 Case Studies;
1.6 How Should I Use Erlang?;
Chapter 2: Basic Erlang;
2.1 Integers;
2.2 The Erlang Shell;
2.3 Floats;
2.4 Atoms;
2.5 Booleans;
2.6 Tuples;
2.7 Lists;
2.8 Term Comparison;
2.9 Variables;
2.10 Complex Data Structures;
2.11 Pattern Matching;
2.12 Functions;
2.13 Modules;
2.14 Exercises;
Chapter 3: Sequential Erlang;
3.1 Conditional Evaluations;
3.2 Guards;
3.3 Built-in Functions;
3.4 Recursion;
3.5 Runtime Errors;
3.6 Handling Errors;
3.7 Library Modules;
3.8 The Debugger;
3.9 Exercises;
Chapter 4: Concurrent Programming;
4.1 Creating Processes;
4.2 Message Passing;
4.3 Receiving Messages;
4.4 Registered Processes;
4.5 Timeouts;
4.6 Benchmarking;
4.7 Process Skeletons;
4.8 Tail Recursion and Memory Leaks;
4.9 A Case Study on Concurrency-Oriented Programming;
4.10 Race Conditions, Deadlocks, and Process Starvation;
4.11 The Process Manager;
4.12 Exercises;
Chapter 5: Process Design Patterns;
5.1 Client/Server Models;
5.2 A Process Pattern Example;
5.3 Finite State Machines;
5.4 Event Managers and Handlers;
5.5 Exercises;
Chapter 6: Process Error Handling;
6.1 Process Links and Exit Signals;
6.2 Robust Systems;
6.3 Exercises;
Chapter 7: Records and Macros;
7.1 Records;
7.2 Macros;
7.3 Exercises;
Chapter 8: Software Upgrade;
8.1 Upgrading Modules;
8.2 Behind the Scenes;
8.3 Upgrading Processes;
8.4 The .erlang File;
8.5 Exercise;
Chapter 9: More Data Types and High-Level Constructs;
9.1 Functional Programming for Real;
9.2 Funs and Higher-Order Functions;
9.3 List Comprehensions;
9.4 Binaries and Serialization;
9.5 References;
9.6 Exercises;
Chapter 10: ETS and Dets Tables;
10.1 ETS Tables;
10.2 Dets Tables;
10.3 A Mobile Subscriber Database Example;
10.4 Exercises;
Chapter 11: Distributed Programming in Erlang;
11.1 Distributed Systems in Erlang;
11.2 Distributed Computing in Erlang: The Basics;
11.3 The epmd Process;
11.4 Exercises;
Chapter 12: OTP Behaviors;
12.1 Introduction to OTP Behaviors;
12.2 Generic Servers;
12.3 Supervisors;
12.4 Applications;
12.5 Release Handling;
12.6 Other Behaviors and Further Reading;
12.7 Exercises;
Chapter 13: Introducing Mnesia;
13.1 When to Use Mnesia;
13.2 Configuring Mnesia;
13.3 Transactions;
13.4 Partitioned Networks;
13.5 Further Reading;
13.6 Exercises;
Chapter 14: GUI Programming with wxErlang;
14.1 wxWidgets;
14.2 wxErlang: An Erlang Binding for wxWidgets;
14.3 A First Example: MicroBlog;
14.4 The MiniBlog Example;
14.5 Obtaining and Running wxErlang;
14.6 Exercises;
Chapter 15: Socket Programming;
15.1 User Datagram Protocol;
15.2 Transmission Control Protocol;
15.3 The inet Module;
15.4 Further Reading;
15.5 Exercises;
Chapter 16: Interfacing Erlang with Other Programming Languages;
16.1 An Overview of Interworking;
16.2 Interworking with Java;
16.3 C Nodes;
16.4 Erlang from the Unix Shell: erl_call;
16.5 Port Programs;
16.6 Library Support for Communication;
16.7 Linked-in Drivers and the FFI;
16.8 Exercises;
Chapter 17: Trace BIFs, the dbg Tracer, and Match Specifications;
17.1 Introduction;
17.2 The Trace BIFs;
17.3 Tracing Calls with the trace_pattern BIF;
17.4 The dbg Tracer;
17.5 Match Specifications: The fun Syntax;
17.6 Match Specifications: The Nuts and Bolts;
17.7 Further Reading;
17.8 Exercises;
Chapter 18: Types and Documentation;
18.1 Types in Erlang;
18.2 TypEr: Success Types and Type Inference;
18.3 Documentation with EDoc;
18.4 Exercises;
Chapter 19: EUnit and Test-Driven Development;
19.1 Test-Driven Development;
19.2 EUnit;
19.3 The EUnit Infrastructure;
19.4 Testing State-Based Systems;
19.5 Testing Concurrent Programs in Erlang;
19.6 Exercises;
Chapter 20: Style and Efficiency;
20.1 Applications and Modules;
20.2 Processes and Concurrency;
20.3 Stylistic Conventions;
20.4 Coding Strategies;
20.5 Efficiency;
20.6 And Finally...;
Using Erlang;
Getting Started with Erlang;
Tools for Erlang;
Where to Learn More;
Colophon;